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Prolonged stress sparks ER to release calcium stores and induce cell death in aging-related diseases

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Li et al. explain how prolonged stress sparks the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to release its calcium stores, inducing cells to undergo apoptosis in several aging-related diseases.The study will appear in the September 21, ...


Researchers pinpoint neural nanoblockers in carbon nanotubes

Researchers pinpoint neural nanoblockers in carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Carbon nanotubes hold many exciting possibilities, some of them in the realm of the human nervous system. Recent research has shown that carbon nanotubes may help regrow nerve tissue or ferry drugs used to ...


Link between obesity and diabetes discovered

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A Monash University study has proven a critical link between obesity and the onset of Type 2 diabetes, a discovery which could lead to the design of a drug to prevent the disease.


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NanoViagra

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of anti-impotency drugs based on nanoparticles might be coming quickly. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York presenting at the 104'th Annual Meeting ...


Researchers identify missing target for calcium signaling

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An international study led by Ohio State University neuroscience researchers describes one of the missing triggers that controls calcium inside cells, a process important for muscle contraction, nerve-cell transmission, insulin ...


Migraine mice exhibit enhanced excitatory transmission at cortical synapses

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research is unraveling the complex brain mechanisms associated with disabling migraine headaches. The study, published by Cell Press in the March 12th issue of the journal Neuron, reveals that perturbation of the delica ...


Wenchuan earthquake mudslides emit greenhouse gas

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Mudslides that followed the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake, ranked by the US Geological Survey as the 11th deadliest earthquake ever recorded, may cause a carbon-dioxide release in upcoming decades equivalent to two ...


New 'bubble' targets only cancer cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For millions of Americans with cancer, the side effects of chemotherapy and other treatment drugs can be devastating. But new drug-delivery research based on nano- and microtechnology from Tel Aviv University might provide ...


Google Chrome 2.0 alpha

Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Alpha

Technology / Software

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the full release of Chrome 1.0 in December, Google has just released Chrome 2.0 alpha that brings many noticeable improvements over Chrome 1.0. With this new alpha release of Chrome 2.0, ...


Protein that regulates hormones critical to women's health found in pituitary

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have solved the mystery surrounding a "rogue protein" that plays a role in the release of neurotransmitters and hormones in the brain.


Model predicts how to build a better stent

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have been puzzled in recent years by observations that drug-releasing stents (mesh-like tubes implanted to hold patients' coronary arteries open) can increase the likelihood of blood clots and ...


Risk takers, drug abusers driven by decreased ability to process dopamine

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year's resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research from Vanderbilt finds that these ...


Insulin-Positive Cells in Mice Lacking Leptin-Making Fat Cells

Leptin's long-distance call to the pancreas

Biology /

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Rube Goldberg—the cartoonist who devised complex machines for simple tasks—would have smiled at one of leptin's mechanisms for curbing insulin release. As Hinoi et al. show, the fat-derived hormone enlists ...


Does growth hormone drug slow Alzheimer's disease?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A new study shows that a drug that increases the release of growth hormone failed to slow the rate of progression of Alzheimer's disease in humans. The new research is published in the November 18, 2008, print issue of Neurology, the me ...


Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

A team of investigators at Northwestern University has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically ...